Guidelines for Tourism Partnerships and Concessions for Protected Areas: Generating Sustainable Revenues for Conservation and Development

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Citation
Spenceley, A., Snyman, S., & Eagles, P. (2017). Guidelines for tourism partnerships and concessions for protected areas: Generating sustainable revenues for conservation and development. Report to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and IUCN.

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Summary
(From report) The guidelines aim to assist protected area authorities in their development and use of tourism partnerships and concessioning to contribute financially and technically to protected areas through sustainable tourism...The guideline's scope focuses predominately on tourism concessions. The guideline also addresses other options that protected area authorities have to form partnerships with the private sector in tourism, including the use of licenses, leases and permits. The main audience for these guidelines is protected area authorities and ministries of the environment and tourism who aim to enhance the level of of financial resources available for conservation management obtained from tourism concessions and partnerships.


Keywords
biodiversity, concession, consumptive tourism, lease, license, permit, public-private partnership, stakeholders, tourist, visitor, sustainable tourism, nature-based tourism, ecotourism


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